27th September 2014 Today I had the honour of Judging Smooth Collies at Barking Open Show and what a wonderful show held at a fantastic venue all put together by an extremely friendly Committee. Critique is on the Critique page. I must say I had a thoroughly enjoyable day and although Smooth Collies there is not a large entry, it was a very worthwhile Judging appointment with a worthy Best of Breed who went on to achieve Pastoral Group 4.
5th October 2014 Today was East Anglian Collie Association Open Show. What a lovely day we had today! Tien our Smooth Collie handled by myself won the Open Bitch Class, Best of Breed Smooth Collie and then went on to win Reserve Best in Show! Many thanks to Breed Specialist Judge Mrs Verna Hills for an absolutely fantastic day.
24th October 2014 saw Midland Counties Championship Show with Breed Specialist Judge Derek Smith. I travelled alone being a Friday and Mark being at work and took our new hopeful, Shandlmain Silver Surfer (Flint) who won Minor Puppy Dog and then went on to win Best Puppy Dog in Breed. Many thanks to Derek Smith, this award qualified Flint for Crufts 2015 in style.
‘Flint’ is pictured with myself handling.
30th October 2014 Freyde’s antics with Voodoo back in the summer resulted in puppies of which Freyde raised 3 bitches and 1 dog. The puppies in this litter are 2 blue merles (1 dog and 1 bitch) a tri colour bitch and and cryptic merle bitch. A Cryptic Merle is really a Blue Merle but appears to look like a tri colour so in laymans terms would be classed as a heavily marked blue merle. We have registered this puppy bitch as a Blue Merle so that there is no confusion in the future as if she were to be mistaken as a tri colour and mated with a blue merle dog, there is a possibility that she could produce double dilute white puppies which we do not want in the breed. We named her Shandlmain’s Hidden Secret and her new owners have called her Kahleesee. We kept the Blue Merle bitch puppy whse Kennel Club name is Shandlmain Blu Seraph and will be known as Fleur, her blue brother is Shandlmain Silver Spirit (Logan) and the tri colour bitch is Shandlmain Tri T’stop Me (Matilda).